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by apienx 3y ago
I'd much rather see the antivax garbage debunked. Think of it as a form of vaccination for the mind.
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by apienx 3y ago
The post could be more informative, but I 100% agree with the sentiment. Confirmation bias and "rain making" are prevalent in the tech industry. "Rationality is not just about knowing facts. It's about knowing which fact
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by apienx 3y ago
I did a post-doc in one of the top polymer chemistry department. There, I noticed people tend to share the minimum amount of information. I then left this quote prominently displayed in the hall: "Alchemists turned into chemists when t
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by apienx 3y ago
"The $40 trillion in stock market wealth in the U.S. is almost 60% of the value of all the equities in the world." Americans make up 4-5% of the world population.
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by apienx 3y ago
Polymers, also known as soft matter, degrade very rapidly when exposed to high temperatures (e.g. melting). I don't see how anyone would be able to engineer their way out of that issue in the next 5-10 years.
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by apienx 3y ago
My 7 year-old phone has had a completely smashed screen for the past year. Thanks to this (super-easy-to-run script), I haven't felt the need to repair the screen at all. 10/10 would recommend.
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by apienx 3y ago
The FTIR data is far from convincing (wrt the wood-PEDOT:PSS interaction), but cool demo. Bra jobbat, Isak!
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by apienx 4y ago
It went like this in the EU: "Bulk purchasing of incandescent bulbs was reported ahead of the EU lightbulb ban. Many retailers in Britain, Poland, Austria, Germany and Hungary have reported bulk purchasing,[126][127][132][133][134] and
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by apienx 4y ago
The effect explains many a divorce. Identity is much more fluid than most people realize (corollary: strong values and principles are uncommon).
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by apienx 4y ago
Sample size is 4,600 participants (over 6 experiments). https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2208839120
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by apienx 4y ago
No. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...
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by apienx 4y ago
> "The institution produced a fair amount of academic research, but the vast majority of it was essentially fraudulent." Wow!
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by apienx 4y ago
Embeddings are superior (classifiers are deprecated).
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by apienx 4y ago
> "The diversity of soluble organic molecules detected in the Ryugu samples is comparable to the diversity of organic molecules found in carbonaceous meteorites. However, the molecular distribution of low-molecular-weight organic co
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by apienx 4y ago
> "Going by these numbers, roughly one in 1,000 papers gets retracted [..] that something more like one in 50 papers has results which are unreliable because of fabrication, plagiarism or serious errors." I'd say these are
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by apienx 4y ago
From the intro: "Conflict theory argues that an individual’s time and energy are limited." No. That's a fact!
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by apienx 4y ago
It'd be interesting to see how the Skeptics and other bias-aware groups perform. It's hard to imagine the folks at the Center For Applied Rationally doing just as bad as the average Joe. It's hard to believe that you can&#x2
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by apienx 4y ago
“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control." -- Epictetus In 2023, I think we can achieve a level of control that's incomprehensible to Epictetus. The goal is to maximize
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by apienx 4y ago
I got very excited reading that title but it's just a misrepresentation of the actual study. There's nothing in the paper that can be considered "evidence". Still...exciting stuff!
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by apienx 4y ago
This group's notorious for shining UV at fashionable pathogens. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-67211-2
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by apienx 4y ago
Remove all mentions of LinkedIn, logos, links and examples ASAP. Don't fight it.
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by apienx 4y ago
Specialization is for insects. -- R. H.
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by apienx 4y ago
Or just a personal relationship with reality. :P
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by apienx 4y ago
Bayes theorem really clicked when I saw 3Blue1Brown's visual representation. https://youtu.be/HZGCoVF3YvM
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by apienx 4y ago
> How is it possible that civilization all across the globe without contact have some sort of ghosts, spirits, demons, Jinns in their world view. This is an argument from incredulity, a common logical fallacy. The consensus (across many
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by apienx 4y ago
Solid case! Thanks for taking the time to write it up. Those who care and have to use TikTok can probably add their own virtualization layer (and tolerate the hit in cost/performance).
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by apienx 4y ago
This is useful if you care about conformation and scare tissue. For everything else, micromachined electrodes/meshes are the superior alternative IMHO. 1. Neither Synchron nor Neuralink have adopted anything resembling this in their R&
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by apienx 4y ago
Exciting! Is this work published somewhere? I'm curious to hear more about the setup and other experimental conditions.
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by apienx 4y ago
Here's a study showing it has no effect on anxiety in rodents: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22105... Sure...PNAS is more prestigious, but I'd wait for this to get repl
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by apienx 4y ago
> "my definition of a human is very different from that of the consensus. At the very least I'd like my humans to exhibit even minimal capacity for emotional expression as well as consistency and honesty" Careful there. Th

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